Commoner

Quick meaning: Commoner is an adjective meaning comparative form of common: more common.

Meaning

comparative form of common: more common.

More Meanings

1. A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
2. (British) Someone who is not of noble rank.
3. (card games) a rankless or average player in Tycoon; not the tycoon, rich, poor, or beggar.
4. Someone who has a right over another's land. They hold common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land. eg: centuries-old grazing rights
5. (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
6. (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
7. (obsolete) A prostitute.

Example Sentences

Sunday [train] services were far commoner than in later years.

All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.

O behold this ring / Whose high respect and rich validity / Did lack a parallel; yet for all that / He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp, / If I be one.

Much good land might be gained from forests […] and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.

Word Forms

• commoners

Synonyms for commoner

Depending on context, synonyms include prostitute, meanling, peasant, peon, pleb, plebeian.

Antonyms for commoner

Common opposites include nobleman.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pleb, gentleman, civilian, plebeian, peasant, serf.

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